2016/11/17

Writing season 2016-2017 = Book 3. Divination

Hi patient readers,

I have started writing, these last few weeks, the first draft of "Book 3: Divination" of my series "From Modernity to After-Modernity". My experience last winter with "Book 2: Theoretical Considerations"
was really exhausting. Furthermore the length of my posts and the
weekly publishing I had imposed on myself resulted in draft versions
that I felt were sometimes not sufficiently thought out. So I plan on a
slower rhythm this winter with shorter posts (3-4000 words instead of
8-9000).

My first post, in this 2016-2017 winter series about the future, will appear on December 9th.
Thinking about the future has been called divination since ancient
times that's why I borrow that old word as title of the writing of this
season 3 that later will become Book 3.

For those of you who did not follow the posts of the last 2 seasons here is what I wrote about:
1. Season 2014-2015: Book 1: A rapid survey of the history leading to Late-Modernity
- Volume 1 : History shapes the present
- Volume 2: Today in Late-Modernity
2. Season 2015-2016: Book 2: Theoretical considerations
- Volume 3: knowledge formation
- Volume 4: brain-mind-consciousness
- Volume 5: axioms of civilization, worldviews, culture
- Volume 6: about societal governance
- Volume 7: about the arts
3. Season 2016-2017: Book 3: Divination

What follows is a tentativetable of content of what I'll be writing about during this 3rd season. Please remember
that this table will eventually evolve with the writing... I just give
it asan indication of what to expect from this season's writing.

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Introduction

Confrontation, reconciliation, integration

About divination

The future is a probabilistic outcome

A few inescapable conclusions

1. The context in which the future emerges1.1. The axioms of civilization
1.2. Loss of societal worldviews
1.3. The cultural context of Late-Modernity
1.3.1. Relativity of the societal atom
1.3.2. Globalization, science & technology
1.3.3. The great convergence and its outcome
1.4. The ideologies at work in Late-Modernity
1.4.1. Power
1.4.2. The Reason of Capital
1.4.3. Philosophic rationalism
1.4.4. Postmodernism
1.4.5. Neoliberalism
1.4.6. Exceptionalism
1.5. Eastern Pragmatism versus Western Rationalism